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Monday Sep 27, 2010 #
8 AM
Swimming 36:00 [2] 1.0 km (36:00 / km)
Checked out the pleasures of Unley pool, Jenny's local, on the way into a day's work in our Adelaide office. This was definitely a recovery session - I didn't feel too bad yesterday but definitely felt aches in assorted locations in bed last night, and took some loosening up this morning. Pleased that the Achilles seems to have come through the weekend OK, though.
I was thinking that riding up Greenhill Road was easy - and then turned the corner and found out why it had been easy. A westerly will do that to you.
It's also perhaps a bit scary that my knowledge of European climate is sufficient to know, to within a couple of days, the date of the picture on display last night of a very small worra standing next to a quite large Northern Ireland snowman (for the record, it will have been somewhere around 8-12 February 1991; the photo would have had to have been taken sometime in the 1990-91 or 1991-92 winters, and I don't think any other event in that time period was cold enough to produce substantial snow in Northern Ireland, which doesn't normally get much of it at sea level).
I was thinking that riding up Greenhill Road was easy - and then turned the corner and found out why it had been easy. A westerly will do that to you.
It's also perhaps a bit scary that my knowledge of European climate is sufficient to know, to within a couple of days, the date of the picture on display last night of a very small worra standing next to a quite large Northern Ireland snowman (for the record, it will have been somewhere around 8-12 February 1991; the photo would have had to have been taken sometime in the 1990-91 or 1991-92 winters, and I don't think any other event in that time period was cold enough to produce substantial snow in Northern Ireland, which doesn't normally get much of it at sea level).
7 PM
Run 38:00 [2] 6.5 km (5:51 / km)
Monday night run of a different sort, in Adelaide from Fern and Tyson's place in Eden Hills. A bit stiff and sore at the start but ended up settling down quite well, and felt quite strong on a couple of the hills. Felt faster than it was, but the lack of light in places may have been an influence there. (Lack of light was a more significant problem later, to be specific, getting back from Eden Hills to Daw Park with two blown headlights - although it was better for it to happen in suburban Adelaide on Monday than somewhere out the back of Dimboola on Friday night).
Saw a somewhat novel form of political advertising on the way there - someone was riding a bike (slowly) up Shepherds Hill Road with a sign on the back of their bike extolling the virtues of a candidate for the local council. It turns out that having someone actually campaigning in SA local council elections is a bit of a novelty - there are only ~1100 candidates for 700 positions and something like half the seats are uncontested.
Saw a somewhat novel form of political advertising on the way there - someone was riding a bike (slowly) up Shepherds Hill Road with a sign on the back of their bike extolling the virtues of a candidate for the local council. It turns out that having someone actually campaigning in SA local council elections is a bit of a novelty - there are only ~1100 candidates for 700 positions and something like half the seats are uncontested.